Itasca
Grapefruit opens tart and clean with neroli's bitter-green floral lift threading through — bright but not sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Grapefruit
- Tonka Bean
- Clove
- Nutmeg
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens tart and clean with neroli's bitter-green floral lift threading through — bright but not sweet. The clary sage already hums underneath, lending an aromatic dryness.
The heart turns warm-spicy: clove and nutmeg combine into a dry, slightly leathery spice, with tonka beginning to glow underneath. The transition is gradual, not abrupt. Incense in the base adds smoky resinous depth, amber sweetens the resin without making it gourmand, and Virginia cedar contributes a sharp pencil-shaving dryness.
Overall: a citrus-spice-incense composition with woody-balsamic depth, cooler-weather and evening territory. Moderate to strong projection. The dry-down lingers as a smoky amber-cedar warmth, sophisticated rather than showy.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
